Draft:Heino Sõna

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Heino Sõna (5 February 1937 Urvaste Parish, Võrumaa10 December 2019) was an Estonian kannel player.

Heino Sõna's father was Karl Sõna who played the lõõtspill, an Estonian diatonic button accordion. Heino Sõna began working as a musician in 19501960 in Otepää and later moved to Karksi-Nuia. Above all, he was known as a traditional kannel player, but was also the first electric kannel player in Estonia.

Heino Sõna participated in the Estonian Folklore Council's mapping and recording project of folk kannel players and was a teacher in the folk instrument home study project organized by the August Pulsti school.

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