I can play the guitar parts on a banjo but it ain't going to sound right.

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?

I was barely thinking about what you said at all.

I was thinking about retelling the story I wanted to retell.

Thinking about writing.

The banjo was just an excuse.

I didn’t hear it.

It was composed for at least two, the Windows 3.1 version uses Microsoft's weird MIDI format from that time that contains a simplified version of the arrangement alongside the full version, and which you would hear depends on the configured MIDI Mapper settings.

I think the OP was referring to the difference in synthesizers. It sounds a heck of a lot different on an MT-32 compared to a Sound Blaster: https://youtu.be/0j4uywdNq44