Scottish, Irish, and just generally Gaelic Flute Music?

[OC Richard]

Here's what Nancy Toff has to say about the various terms for people who play flute:

On the average of once a week somebody asks me "are you a flutist or a flautist?"

My answer is a vehemently declaimed "Flutist!"

Less decisive people call me a fluteplayer, or even fluter...but please don't call me a flautist.

I have run into "fluter" in the Irish flute world, I suppose an analogy with "piper".

But I think "flute-player" is the most common term.

("Flautist" was invented by a Victorian English poet living in Italy. where the word for flute is flauto.)