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Nulophone (or naulophone) is a pashto music instrument locally known as druza or droza (wheat stems) introduced by Zarnosh, a musician born in Chargano Kali, Mardan Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

It consists of two wheat stems (one usually longer than another) not attached to each other. One end of each stems is flattened. It came with different compositions. In Zarnosh's Nulophone, one of the stems had just three frets and the other has none, but recently another Nulophone player, Zarkaram, came with six frets. The sound of the Nulophone is like snake charmer's been.

This instrument is one of the essential parts of the Pashto music but unfortunately this instrument is one of the dying arts of Pashto culture. In the past, Zarnosh was the only Droza or Nulophone player. No one paid attention to the importance of this instrument, so Zarnosh got no student to forward his skills to the next generation. Zarnosh died in 2004. After his death, this instrument was completely disappeared from the Pashto music. Fortunately, recently Pashto orchestra got a new young Nulophone player Shaukat Paniyal. He made few changes to the instrument and gave the name Nulophone (derived from the local word null, local name of bamboo cane, he used bamboo cane instead of Wheat stems) to this instrument to make the name more acceptable instead of the local name druza. He claims that his instrument has seven tunes instead of Zarnosh's invented instruments with five tunes.