Comment by brudgers
In 1900, QRS began making piano rolls. By 1920, they had invented a machine to capture piano players directly and over the years QRS captured many including Liberace, George Gershwin, and even Roger Miller playing Autumn Leaves.
QRS is still in business and some of its product lines use Midi conversions of piano rolls and last month I landed a mixed lot with a bunch of those Midi files on 3.5” floppy disks.
I had George Gershwin rocking a Yamaha XG clavichord and Liberace on a Sitar and similar shenanigans.
I didn't say it wouldn't sound good. It wouldn't sound right, as in, not what was intended.
In particular, think of how this would play out if you had never heard that song before, would that be what you were after?