This list is intended primarily as a resource for those seeking to buy a new wooden or folk flute or just to research the field. It is not aimed solely at the Irish Traditional Music (ITM) market. Therefore it includes currently active makers of any kind of Western European style transverse wooden flute - keyless "Irish" or "Folk" flutes, band flutes and fifes, keyed simple system flutes, period replica or “modified-based-on” Mediaeval/Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic era instruments, as well as those who make such instruments in substitute materials other than wood, makers of wooden Böhm flutes and wooden head-joint specialists. There is also a sub-list of specialist dealers in such instruments, both historic/antique and modern, aiming to include the regular, commercial dealers.