Calling a method from another class while in a seperate class

Hello
I am currently TRYING to proramme a simple alarm clock program, The way it has had to be set out is that there are two classes one is called ClockDisplay which is just the clock and the one i have had to create is called AlarmDisplay
I am trying to write code so that when the String alarmdisplayString(this is located in the alarm class which i am typing this code) is the same as String displayString the system will print out something like "Beep wake up" So far i have this code but i cannot figue out what to put to reference the method from the ClockDisplay class while codingi n the AlarmDisplay class
if(alarmdisplayString = DONT KNOW WHAT TO PUT HERE) {
system.out.println ("DING WAKE UP");
Any help would be great!
Thanks

That makes sense i have put in this code
private void Alarmtone()
ClockDisplay displayString = new ClockDisplay();
if (alarmdisplayString == ClockDisplay.displayString){
system.out.println ("DING WAKE UP");
displayString is the method in the ClockDisplay Class
alarmdisplayString is the method in the AlarmDisplay class
I get the error message "non-static variable displayString cannot be referenced from a static context
Thanks for the help so far :D

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