sticcadon.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 38 A kind of Sticcado, consisting of bars of wood of different lengths, as sonorous as if they had been of metal.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vii. 210 If I can but steal out into the woods, and play upon my sticcado, I forget it all directly.

1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Sticcado, an instrument consisting of small lengths of wood, flat at bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 409/1 Sticcado or Sticcato, an instrument composed of pieces of wood of graduated lengths, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, resting on the edges of an open box, and tuned to a diatonic scale. The tone is produced by striking the pieces of wood with small hard balls at the end of a flexible stick.