licorice stick; liquorice stick noun a clarinet US,1935
She called his clarinet a “licorice stick.” Was she corny. — J.D. Salinger, CatcherintheRye, p. 75, 1951
Well, a-reading, writing, arithmetic / Taught to the tune of a licorice stick / No education is ever complete / Without a boogie-woogie-woogie beat[.] — Bill Haley, ABCBoogie, 1954