Hayman drums were kind of a big deal in England for a while. The Hayman experts will chime in but my understanding is that they built high quality drums. Like Camco in the US, they were not a particularly large company but they did manufacture a quality product. I believe they emphasized their interior coating as a way to increase volume to compete with the amplification common at the time. There are often comparisons made to Camco, but most of that probably has to do with the round, turret-style lugs. I believe they were well thought of though.

Give this a look !

http://www.vintagedrumguide.com/hayman.html

Hey man, I can't comment on the quality but I can tell you that they were trying to look like a great and familiar drum. I heard a set a couple of times and they were big and boomy sounding and looked really nice. The set I saw was a silver/chrome finish. The logo looks like the ludwig logo, the badge looks like Gretsch RB, the lugs like camco, and the name? well maybe so people would say Hey man those are cool drums.

I play a re-wrapped late 60's Hayman 12,13,16,22,14sn kit alternately with a same sized Camco kit. When I sold off my kit and snare collection, these are the two kits I kept.

To give you an idea of the sound of Hayman drums, my wood shell 5.5x14 Hayman snare is brighter than my Ludwig Acrolite but still retains the fullness of a wood shell snare.

The toms cut with a bit more high end and volume than my Camco toms. The kick tends to sound like all the rest of the bass drums set up for rock, funk, country that I've owned, but is not quite as loud as my Camco........go figure.

They were intended as a British answer to Ludwig i.e. a more rock sound and were developed by Ivor Arbiter, the guy who had the Brit Ludwig dealership (he was also the guy who made sure the Ludwig logo was painted extra big on Ringo's Beatles bass drum head).

Lots of famous Brit players used from the late 60s and into the 70s - all the way from Bill Bruford to Simon Kirke.

IMHO, not particularly Camco-y (excluding the obvious round lug comparison) but a high quality drum and a lot of people who swear by them.

And the ebay seller is, let's say, extremely optimistic.

Thanks for the schooling!!! Bowing

$5000 Blow me!!!! In that case I have a Hayman Snare for sale at $1500 if any of you are interested!

I've got a Hayman snare; COS I guess, or some alloy. It's a great-sounding snare. I'm using it on a recording right now. Good drums.

Stephen

I think they were quite rare drums. Only made at the end of the companies tenure. Nice.