How the Dutch do it

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Hello folks,

I heard Dutch people call their notes a little bit differently.

F sharp is Fis. G flat is Ges. That's all I can remember.

I like that, because it's easier for your mouth to say Fis than F sharp.

So I'm wondering how they call the rest of the notes.

I don't think it goes like this:

Cis, Dis, Eis, Gis, Ais, Bis...
Ces, Des, Ees, Fes, Aes, Bes...

Anybody know?

Appreciate your help,

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Cis, Dis, Eis, Fis, Gis, Ais, Bis

Ces, Des, Es, Fes, Ges, As, Bes

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Germans don't have a B, they call it H or something.

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Easy:

Cis, Dis, Eis, Fis, Gis Ais, His


Ces, Des, Es, Fes, Ges, As, Hes

There is no Bis and Bes.

H (German: "HA") = B

B (German: "BE") = Bb.

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Here we go:

C Cis D Dis E F Fis G Gis A Ais B(=H) C

and:

C Des D Es E F Ges G As A Bes(=B) B(=H) C

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The question was about the Dutch, not the Germans...

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Thanks folks.
Viv Savage wrote:The question was about the Dutch, not the Germans...
Lots of people think Dutch = Deutsch.

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halfstep wrote:
I don't think it goes like this:

Cis, Dis, Eis, Gis, Ais, Bis...
Ces, Des, Ees, Fes, Aes, Bes...

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acctualy it goes like that in Dutch (from the Netherlands)

houdoe en bedankt

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I don't have a clue why I thought we were talking about Germans.

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karacha wrote:I don't have a clue why I thought we were talking about Germans.
LOL! Im sure theres no prob doh. Peace.
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karacha wrote:I don't have a clue why I thought we were talking about Germans.
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Pennsylvania Dutch refers to people of German heritage. "The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples. The German, Deutsch, the archaic Dutch, Deitsch, and the modern Dutch, Duits, each mean 'German' yet are all cognates of the English, 'Dutch'. Hostetler (1993) gives the origin of 'Dutch' as a "folk-rendering" of 'Deitsch'."

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karacha wrote:I don't have a clue why I thought we were talking about Germans.
who said Germans? Image ich in sommerset bin born....
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Barf wrote:Germans don't have a B, they call it H or something.
B-flat is B, and B natural is H. Bach took advantage of this, encoding his surname into at least one piece (alas, memory fails beyond this). IIRC, the reason for the B=Bb thing, is that medieval melodies often flattened the 7th tone to avoid a tritone, so it just became assumed.
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