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What drumsticks does Gavin Glover use?

Educator

The drumsticks Gavin Glover plays

VaterVH7AW⌀.539″×15.984″Official roster

Gavin Glover plays the Vater VH7AW (⌀.539″×15.984″, hickory). The roster entry gives the band as Educator.

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Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

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Vater Official roster

Vater VH7AW Manhattan 7A Wood

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	.539″ (13.7 mm)
Length	15.984″ (406 mm)
Wood / material	Hickory
Tip shape	Ball
Tip material	Wood
Taper	—
Weight	≈43g 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

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Band	Educator
Genre	Educator
Listed by	Vater

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Vater VH7AW 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.

VaterVHETW⌀.539″×15.984″VaterVHN7AW⌀.539″×15.984″Innovative PercussionIP-SR⌀.531″×15.984″VaterVHSRW⌀.531″×15.984″TAMAH214-B⌀.551″×15.984″TAMAH214B-MS⌀.551″×15.984″

Reference: Vater VH7AW Manhattan 7A Wood

Other drummers who play the same stick 12

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as Gavin Glover.

Alain TissotInside Out / Independent Amr GalalIndependent Brian KelleyDrum Set Instructor: Braintree, MA C. MohlerIndependent / Teacher Caitlin KalafusAllison Ponthier Chris TrzcinskiIndependent Christophe FellayJazzorange / Clinician / Teacher CJ ThompsonCharlie Puth Cleon EdwardsErykah Badu / Cory Henry Cliff SarconaThe Black and the White Collin LeijenaarNeal Morse Daniel MuraIndependent

More drummers on Vater's roster

Other drummers on the same maker's artist pages.

Gene PetersonIndependent GentaIndependent Geoff DugmoreSession Artist Geoff DunnIndependent Geoffrey JonesIndependent Georg VorosIndependent George CookThe Japanese House / Moya/ Gabriella Cilmi George MitchellJennifer B & The Groove Kings

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