A variety of useful links with regards to older style flutes.
My Baroque Flute Corner, featurning fingering charts and other information.
Rick Wilson's Historical Flutes Page. An absolutely fabulous site with great pictures and lots of information. Covers renaissance flutes through early Boehm system flutes. He also has facsimiles of music and treatises in PDF format for download.
Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection online!
Louis Lot articles by Eldred Spell. Also headjoint nomenclature.
My friend Daniel Deitch, Flutemaker & Baroque Woodwinds, makes a variety of excellent flutes and other 'early' instruments. He is also one of the best wind instrument technicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Folkers & Powell Flutes makers of fine instruments. Ardal Powell has also provided us with a fine, informative website, including a database of baroque flute teachers.
Simon Polak, Dutch maker of Baroque flutes. I tried his flutes and liked them a lot.
Scott Smith's list of Baroque Flute Makers. Pretty complete, too.
Chris Wilkes, flutemaker. (Simple-system flutes) Very nice flutes, and Beautiful photos! Jean Michel Veillon plays on one of his flutes.
Terry McGee - Flutemaker. Excellent site with lots of good information and pictures. I've tried his flutes and found them excellent!
Henrik Norbeck, another Swede who plays traditional music on flute. Excellent site full of tunes and information, including essays on Swedish music.
Here is an excellent Wooden Flute Guide by Brad Hurley: lots of good info if you are thinking about learning to play Irish traditional music on flute.
Mark Hoza's 'Kything Flutes' look like fun to play. "Irish style" flutes in native Australian hardwoods.
Jan Hermans Historical Woodwinds.