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What drumsticks does Ernie Adams use?

Al DiMiola

The drumsticks Ernie Adams plays

VaterVSMPW⌀.642″×15.984″Official roster

Ernie Adams plays the Vater VSMPW (⌀.642″×15.984″, maple). The roster entry gives the band as Al DiMiola.

The sticks, spec by spec

Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

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Vater Official roster

Vater VSMPW Sugar Maple Piccolo

Listed as their stick on Vater's official roster

The drumstick silhouette is drawn to scale — length and diameter exactly as published — and the dotted lines mark every 100 mm from the butt end on the left.

Figures as published by the maker; inch values are converted back from mm.
Diameter	.642″ (16.3 mm)
Length	15.984″ (406 mm)
Wood / material	Maple
Tip shape	Ball
Tip material	Wood
Taper	—
Weight	≈53g est.

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Where this comes from

Listed on Vater's official artist page (retrieved 2026-08-25)Source page ↗

All of it is what the maker's own site says. Endorsements and stick choices change, so this is not a guarantee that the drummer plays this model today.

Profile

Only what the makers publish, plus links the drummer runs themselves.

Band	Al DiMiola
Genre	Jazz
Listed by	Vater

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Vater VSMPW in diameter, length, wood, tip and taper — the same calculation this site's “find sticks like this” uses. It does not mean the drummer plays any of them.

Innovative PercussionIP-2⌀.634″×15.984″VaterVMTAW⌀.634″×15.984″VaterVSMPIANW⌀.634″×15.984″Pearl176M⌀.630″×15.945″PromarkRBM625RW⌀.626″×15.984″PromarkSD2W⌀.634″×15.748″

Reference: Vater VSMPW Sugar Maple Piccolo

Other drummers who play the same stick 12

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as Ernie Adams.

Andre CharlierDidier Lockwood / Infolio Andrew MoseleyThe Veronicas Christophe CalpiniAhmad Mansoar / Independent Darran MullerIndependent Dave PreviThe Collective School of Music Eyal NisenboymAvraham Tal Gene PetersonIndependent Georg VorosIndependent Gilberto JarquínIndependent Jan UetzClinician / Teacher Luis FormigaEducator / Independent Mark SteproThe Wallflowers / Butch Walker / Brett Dennen

More drummers on Vater's roster

Other drummers on the same maker's artist pages.

Ernst Van EeIndependent Ethan KinnunenIndependent Evan WalshThe Strypes Fabio NasuelliMirrorMaze / Educator Faith BensonCrimson Apple Faith PowellPlush Felix "D-Kat" PollardLionel Richie Felix EwertNik & Jay

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