Playing music on shabbat is not a melacha. It was originally made illegal due to the destruction of beit hamikdash, the end of Jewish soverignty and perhaps, to riff off a theme in our class, emancipation. As the notion of Jewish freedom enters the Jewish culture in Germany (as well as Nationalism, which we'll get to) perhaps the taboo of music on shabbat crumbled a bit. Besides, we all play music on shabbat. We clap (Clee Shiur - which Tosofot outlawed in the 14th century) and we take out the torah, with its ornamental bells ringing as we walk.
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