What is the Austrian musical scale in English, please?

Question

Here is what I'm faced with:

g''', d''', h'', g'', d'', h', g', d', h, g, d, H, G

c''', a'', fis'', Es, es, B, b, F, f ... etc.

NOTE that the letters mean something different if they are capitolized or not.

What I'm looking for is how these relate to the U. S. scale.

Thanks very much to anyone who can help, John.

I would like to thank you both for helping out... I can't choose a best answer because you both gave such great information. I'm restoring an old German music box and the comb is marked off in the German scale. Thanks very much for your help, John.

Answer 1

Without looking it up, I can't remember the absolute pitches of the notes in terms of capitals or lower case letters, except that C-B is an octove lower than c-b, which is an octave lower than c'-b', etc.

In German (and therefore, I suppose, Austrian) B/b means B flat and H/h is used for B natural.

Things ending in "is" are sharp - so "fis" is F sharp.
Things ending in "es" are flat - so "Es" is E flat.

I've just checked my Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the capitalised octave is that starting at middle C and going upwards.

You should be able to place all the notes now! I haven't bored you with double sharps and double flats - that's lesson 2.

Answer 2

c´ is middle c (first ledger line below the staff (treble clef) or the first line above the staff (bass clef))
c´´ is an octave higher than the middle c (written in the third space, treble clef)
c is an octave lower than the middle c (written in the second space, bass clef)
C is an octave lower than c (second ledger line below the staff, bass clef)
fis – f sharp (suffix –is means sharp “#”: cis, dis, fis, gis, ais)
fes – f flat (suffix –es means flat “b”: des, es, ges, as, b)
h – b
(b – b flat)