The protestants did not believe in worshipping saints, because they believed that the Bible should be the only word that is respected in Christianity. There is evidence of this in art, as many Catholic art represents saints being worshipped, while you will not find any saints in Protestant art. Rather, most Protestant art is depicting stories directly from the Bible.
How to play a string is you take a coin with two fingers and kinda rub it into the strings like your going to do with a blanket. Then, you sing what you are going to sing with the strings. I only know the answer to this one, sorry. :(
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