On a keyed flute, where do you tend to place your non active fingers, i.e. upper hand thumb (when it’s not on the Bb key) and the lower hand pinky (when not in use on the Eb key)?
I’m migrating from keyless to keyed, and don’t want to pick up bad habits from the outset.
My upper hand thumb rests on my (non-standard) C nat thumb hole and my lower hand pinkie only rests when it’s working (i.e. venting the Eb key).
Hi Niall.
I have no problem with my left thumb, it does not touch the Bb key any time, it rest slightly above the key. However, at the moment I need to wrench away the Eb key because my pinkie tend to rest in the key position opening it and this is not a good business.
I have to say that I´m finding easiest than expected the move into a keyed fute, after 2 months and half I can manage 4 keys fluenty, C#, F long, F short and Bb. In the future I should change my pinkie resting way to adapt my playing to the Eb key, and I´m not sure how to run the G# key but I´m sure I will find a way.
What flute have you in mind?
David.
Jemtheflute - thanks for the link. So this player is venting the Eb key by default for most notes, a la Boehm system? I noticed others have rotated the foot section so that the key is mostly out of reach, and they rest the pinkie on the silver ring of the foot section.
“This player” 
is indeed venting the Eb key most of the time, plus observe freeness of L thumb which is hardly “idle” playing in Gm, but if not needed on the Bb key could as readily hang free as be placed against the tube, though you can also see where it is rested against the tube. Those who turn their foot keys out of reach do so because they choose not to use them and find them obstructive if placed where needed to play them. You’ll note “this player” makes use of them. 