How many flutes do you have to have before you are judged to be a sufferer? I think I may be on the verge with 6… 
If you count the lame, the halt, the Boehms, the odd “you play flute so I thought you’d like this” gifts and the other-than D keys, I have something like 11.
But I don’t have a problem.
(:lol:)
You’re just starting.
Have you seen these guys: http://www.holmesmcnaughton.com/flutes.html
Or http://www.watsonflutes.com/
There’s a world of flutes out there crying to be played.
I have three flutes. My very first one (which I never ever would sell), the one I play now and a Tipple in Bnat…I think FOA doesn’t have me yet. 
Oddly, I’m not feeling the pull. In D, one wood and one synthetic has me satisfied. I’ve got a decent F and some odd bamboo jobs around also.
WHOA has been a bigger problem, but I’ve pretty much figured out my likes/dislikes now. I don’t regret my binge of buying/selling at all. I still maintain that it’s a relatively cheap hobby. 
it doesn’t matter how many you actually have - because it’s never enough.
I would gladly step up to the challenge if only I had a weatlhy benefactor! My paltry lone flute hardly gets me into the FAD club. On the other hand, I’m not clogging any waiting lists.
However, one flute is all one needs to have Tune Acquisition Disorder. (Although I suppose one could have a different variant of the disorder if one didn’t have a flute at all…)
Neither do I with only 8 
disorder 
what…he doen’t want more
I do, that’s what made me wonder… there is the silver flute, don’t play much so missed it out, then there’s the Bflat on order, I caught myself wondering if an Eflat might not be needed… it could so easily get out of hand.
Of course I too have the ‘ethic’ gifts that friends seem to think I will swoon over when they bring them back from far flung places… but I aint counting them cos they are rubbish.
Thats sig material right there.
Well I don’t even know how many flutes I have!
Lets see…
2- Fentum’s 8 key Cocuswood
1- Blackman 8 key Cocuswood
1- Butler 6 key Ebony
1- Butler 8 key Cocuswood
1- Hastrick 8 key Cocuswood
1- Clementi 8 key Ebony
1- HY Potter 6 key Cocuswood
1- Henry William Potter 6 key Boxwood
2- William Hall 8 key Cocuswood
1- Firth, Hall and Pond 4 key Boxwood
1- Goulding D’Almaine 8 key Boxwood
1- Wallis 8 key Cocuswood
1- Mahillon 6 key Cocuswood
1- Bauer 8 key Cocuswood
1- Gerock & Wolf 8 key Ebony
1- Lyon & Healy 11 key Ebony
1- Original Meyers 11 key Madagascar Rosewood
1- Un-marked German 13 key Ebony
1- Un-marked English 4 key Boxwood
1- Boosey 8 key Eb Cocuswood
1- Boosey 6 key Bb Cocuswood (fife)
I might have more, stuck between the sofa cushions…
But I don’t have a problem, do I?
It’s only a problem if it bothers you. 
I like the list Jon made so I am going to do the same thing.
1-Doyle Rosewood in D
1-Copley Blackwood Eb
1-Sweetheart G in Rosewood
1-Seery Delrin
1-Tipple Low C
??-Various others
Your right, I will go check eBay… 
1 - A-Bb-C combo
1 – D-Eb combo
1 – F
2 – 1-key D Irish flutes
1 – keyless D
1 – 1-key traverso (modern pitch)
2 – 1-key traversos A415
So that adds up to about a dozen or fewer depending on how you count the combos.
When you wonder if you’ve got FLOA, it’s
already too late.
I have:
1 D 6 key M&E
1 Eb Cochran
1 Bb Tipple
1 Bb Burns (on order)
So, currently a total of three, but no overlap…
Yeah, I have heard Glenn Watson’s flutes’ cry
Thanks for the holmes-mcnaughton link, they were new to me. Great pictures there too. Though I found the following image to be disrespectful and shocking:
Oh, and I only have one 6-key flute and 2 bamboo flutes.
I do think that one can have Flute Aquisition Disorder without owning many flutes. I have the conditition, but also suffer Restrictive Wallet Syndrome…