Solfege deemed profane by some

I kid you not:

Some Santa Fe parents OK with "Itsy Bitsy Spider" were stunned and angry about what else they heard coming out of an electronic toy piano for toddlers.

Child Magazine called the Fisher-Price's "Laugh and Learn" baby grand piano the best toy of 2006, and it's one of the company's best sellers.

Toddlers can play the voice scale on the toy piano keys, the classic Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti.

But to some ears, the combination of keys sounds like it's conveying a message that is offensive.

The toy is designed for toddlers like Santa Fe's Unique Gonzales, or at least that's what her godmother thought.

"I bought it for my goddaughter for her birthday, her first birthday," Lanette Rodriguez said.

But when Unique played the voice scale her own way, she found a unique message. The problem is how the digital voice singing the scale sounds with the combination Fa-Mi-Re-Mi.

"It's very, very inappropriate," Rodriguez said. "It's very disturbing. It's completely unbelievable, insane, upsetting."

Unique's mother says she got her first clue to the key combination from her 1 year old.

"She's like fa, fa, fa,' and I was wondering why is she saying that?" Alexis Chacon said. "It was the toy.

"Then she says, ra, ra, ra.' She's too small to learn those kinds of words. It's supposed to be Do-Re-Mi, and it's F-me-rape me."

Both mothers said they want the product off store shelves, so they went to an attorney.

"Our client went directly to Fisher Price and was stonewalled basically," Michael Duran of Keller & Keller said. "We want to contact Fisher Price and see if they're at least going to have some reaction, maybe pull this item off the shelves."

For now it's available, but Chacon this mother says not for her toddler.

''Fa, fa,' that's all she say now," Chacon said. "I've been telling her, fire, fire hot' trying to change it up."

KRQE News 13 tried to get in touch with Fisher Price but played phone tag. The messages left did include the subject matter, but still no statement.

The Santa Fe family did file a complaint with the attorney general's office on Thursday.

A spokesman there says that will start an investigation.