Now Carl has mentioned it, let us have a look at the two lines again:
"my father’s baby grand and sings like him:
guitar and passion—quite a treat to see".
It is a compressed analogy: my grandson while playing the piano sings with the passion my father sang while playing the guitar. The disjunction occurs because the normative path is to compare both singing while playing the same instrument, especially since the father owned the piano. It makes me think the father never sang or with passion while playing the piano, and expressed himself most fully with the guitar.
If "guitar and passion" is to consider modifying "sings" as separate from playing the piano, then I don't think the issue is that large, but you might experiment with another line to see if you could find something better, just for fun.
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