Possible Clues:

• Handful for Hendrix
• Stringed instrument mostly good for Scottish sailor
• Doesn't look so 24 across to play in the air, while listening to another.
• It can be acoustic or electric
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe's instrument
• Fender instrument
• 'Teardrops on My ___' (Taylor Swift song)
• Grub in tea urn, oddly, and a musical instrument!
• Luthier's product
• Plucky type of bouncer, for the most part, is protecting it