His headstone was wrong because it shows a picture of Hendrix playing a Stratocaster , but the Stratocaster is right-handed , Hendrix played left-handed . Later that year , the remains of Jimi Hendrix , his father Al Hendrix , and grandmother Nora Rose Moore Hendrix were moved to the new site . The headstone contains a depiction of a Fender Stratocaster guitar , the instrument he was most famed for using â '' â `` although the guitar is shown right-side up , rather than the way Hendrix played it , upside down ( left-handed ) .