I am a beginner, if I can only choose one flute from the following three beginner’s Irish flutes, which one you would like to suggest me to buy.
M&E Polymer,
Dixon Ploymer, or
Casey Burn Beginner Folk Flute
M&E
you might want to wait for the “new” Dixon 4pc…coming soon.. 
I don’t think you’d go wrong with any one of these flutes. Various and sundry players prefer one over the other.
I’ve only every owned or played one of these - the Dixon, and I thought it was a very good flute for the price.
Eric
Thanks for the information.
For small hand benginner, which one is the best among those three Irish Flute.
I can only comment on the Burn’s Folk flute.
It would accomodate small hands quite well. It has ergonomic finger placements that feel very natural. As a plus I think it’s very easy to get different voices out of it. Good instrument. You might do some searches in the forum on some reviews. I have given a ‘first thought’ beginner’s point view review of the Burn’s.
YMMV,
Tony
KC, you might ask NorCalMusician about the Casey Burns - I know he and his wife love it (and since they’re local you might have a chance to try it out).
I think Casey Burns makes the Beginner flute in the “Small Hands” model if you need it - “Small Hands” or “Standard” are the only options he offers on the Beginner/Folk Flute.
But as I recall, your hands aren’t much, if any, smaller than mine - and I could handle MurphyStout’s Hammy without any real problems. So you could probably play any of the three.
Will we hear “Green Island Serenade” on the flute at our next get-together?
I’m in a similar position and considered the same flutes as you, plus I was looking at the Seery. All are excellent flutes and you couldn’t go wrong with any of them.
I chose to get the M&E for no particular reason other than I like the sound I’ve heard on recordings of people playing it. The others sound great too, but I particularly liked the M&E.
As I said, they are all good instruments and you won’t go wrong whichever you choose.
I’ve had playing experience with the Dixon conical polymer flute and the Burns. The Dixon causes me left hand cramps. My hands are just over 7 inches in their spread but that Dixon flute always causes pain within 10 minutes of playing it. 
Burns’ flutes are ergonomic. The small-handed spacing is comfortable. He has off-set G (3rd finger of left hand), as well as some off-sets on the right (the 3rd finger, I believe) hand. They also have that wonderful, real-wood sound. I’m used to off-set G from my Boehm experience, so that may have made the difference in my case. But I definitely prefer the Burns flute.
J
These opinions are not all from myself. I’ve just played the M&E but I’ve heard a lot of opinions on all, so here’s my comments.
If you want a great sounding wood flute, not in any way close to a top notch flute in design tough, with easy finger strech at low cost: CB beginner flute.
If you want a maintenance free, small holed polymer flute which seems quite nice at quite low cost: Dixon 3pc
If you want a good session level, maintenance free polymer flute, medium holed, that you will not be limited by and with many design similarities with any top notch flute for a few $ more: M&E
All good points; all fine flutes for their purposes. But personally, I think wood is gooder. It just gives you more.
Burns beginner.
Wood and polymer do feel and sound different.
I think not necessarily better or worse–I think the make and model of the flute, the care taken in its making, and especially the cut of the embouchure all make a much bigger difference in the sound than do differences in material.
Polymer flutes don’t sound exactly like blackwood flutes. That’s not to say they sound worse, only different.
Also, it’s been my experience that the sound of the same flute can vary widely when it’s played by different players; however, the same player on several different flutes will still have his own recognizable sound on each instrument with only minor variation due to model and material.
–James
Hello everyone,
I would like to echo what james just said. There are small differences between the sound of the differnt flutes, but this is (almost) insignificant when you factor in the player. Disregarding the individual playing styles (ornamentation, use of pulse, phrasing etc.) the embouchure of the person playing the flute, and their idea of what constitutes a “good” tone, mainly affects the resulting tone. I regularly play Eldarions various flutes, and he plays mine. He always sounds basically like himself, and I allways sound basically like me, regardless of the flute.
regards
Michael